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Articles: Research

Photograph of two riders on horseback crossing a plain, silhouetted against the setting sun

Horsemanship appears to have played a key role in the spread of the Yamnaya people.

Photograph by istock and altered by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine

Research

New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture

3.3.23

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Photograph from the Princeton University Art Museum/In the Public Domain

How humans hybridize their civilizations

March-April 2023

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Henry Clarke Warren, 1879
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

March-April 2023

Illustration of book like a sinking ship, emblematic of problems in the humanities

Illustration by Dave Cutler

What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

January-February 2023

Photo of the rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

The rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

Image courtesy of Felipe Pereda

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

January-February 2023

liriodendron tulipifera of Eastern North America and liriodendron chinense of Eastern Asia

Tulip trees of Eastern North America and Eastern Asia, which last shared a common ancestor 14 million years ago.

Photographs by William (Ned) Freedman

Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks

11.3.22

George Reisner, 1924

George Reisner, 1924

Photograph courtesy of Peter Der Manuelian

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

November-December 2022

Photograph of Milman Parry in Paris, circa 1925-1928

Parry in Paris circa 1925-1928

Photograph courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University.

 

Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935

September-October 2022

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

The 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Photograph courtesy of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.

4.14.22